What about protections under the 2nd amendment also?
From the 14th Amendment:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
But we may be seeing corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification career lawmakers letting the courts legislate punitive remedies to state abridgment of enumerated rights from the bench so that lawmakers can keep their voting records clean and get reelected.
Insights welcome.
This is why patriots need to support PDJT by electing new patriot lawmakers in 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJTs MAGA, but will also promise to do its 14A duty to strengthen constitutionally enumerated rights from abridgment by state actors.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!